Catalogue description Records of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals
Reference: | BF |
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Title: | Records of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals |
Description: |
Records of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals relating to the administration of pensions claims and appeals from ex-servicemen, widows and dependants. Correspondence relating to the operation of the tribunals will be found in BF 3. Case files are in BF 2 and BF 4, with registers of cases in BF 1. For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division. |
Date: | 1920-2003 |
Related material: |
Other correspondence relating to the operation of the tribunals will be found in and the Ministry of Pensions, Division within PIN Appeals to the High Court against a decision of a tribunal on a point of law are in J 96 For other records relating to war pensions matters, see PIN 14 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Pensions Appeal Tribunals, 1919- |
Physical description: | 5 series |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 1998 The Court Service |
Custodial history: | Records transferred to the Public Record Office from the Lord Chancellors Department, from 1974 to 1998. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Arising from claims for pensions from ex-servicemen or their widows or dependants a Pensions Appeal Tribunal was set up in July 1917 which operated in an advisory capacity as a branch of the Ministry of Pensions. In November 1919 independent tribunals were established under the War Pensions (Administrative Provisions) Act 1919 to consider and decide appeals from claimants against decisions as to entitlement made by the Ministry of Pensions. By the War Pensions Act 1921 the jurisdiction of the tribunals was extended to the consideration of appeals against decisions of the Ministry of Pensions concerning final award and assessment. With the outbreak of the Second World War and the extension of the conflict to the civilian population provision was made under the Pensions Appeal Tribunals Acts 1943 and 1949 for consideration of appeals concerning the award of war pensions arising from death or injury as a result of relevant service whether in the armed services, mercantile marine, civil defence or as a civilian. The appointment and regulation of Pensions Appeal Tribunals in England and Wales is vested in the Lord Chancellor. The Tribunals are of two kinds:
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